alt Hacker NewsGood point. The number of times is zero. Probably something that should be implemented defensively at the library level. I guess most developers don't realise this can happen (I did not).
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inigyou • today at 12:39 AM
No you don't actually want a regex library that randomly fails when someone runs one of Chris Domas's pathological stall instructions on a different core.
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I actually did add a timer as a final "if all else fails" for my regex implementation rather recently, maybe 6 months ago. I don't even know of any scenario that could reach the timer because I have a robust allowlist/denylist and a ton of unit tests. But I would rather just be certain and it wasn't hard.